Expert Guidance for the Agile Organisation
Continuing with the same topic that I started, let’s consider one last scenario: He was the head of product development, and he never outright said no to agile. He thought agile is a development thing, nothing to do with him.…
Read More Would you think that “blasé, nonchalant” are the synonyms for resistance?
Continuing with the same topic that I started last time, let’s consider another scenario: This time, the CEO was very enthusiastic in the beginning when I told him what an agile organization meant. He liked what I told him, and…
Let's consider a scenario: This one company hired me as head of program management to roll out agile. When I tried to set up cross-functional teams for better delivery, my boss, the Chief Product Officer (CPO), told me that my…
Leadership Memo 2020-3 “The art of leadership consists in bringing and keeping people in the highest performance levels, and this happens when people are in the best state of personal well-being.” - Daniel Goleman I think we can all agree…
“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” - Albert Einstein In the past couple months, I’ve been writing and talking about performance management and reward & recognition. We even explore whether we…
Leadership Memo 2020-2 Being a manager is hard. You are no longer working in the domain you are an expert in. There are additional responsibilities that you need to do. Most likely, you don’t like those responsibilities. Being a good…
Leadership Memo 2020-1 We have all been working remotely for the past few months, and you may think you got the hang of remote working. You figure out what meetings to call, what doesn’t need a meeting, you learn how…
After working from home for a month, Peter finds himself more exhausted than working in the office for 10+ hours a day. He also finds that he has developed some terrible habits, one of them being sitting in the same…
Read More Wonder why you are more exhausted after a day of online meetings?
Now that we all have been forced to work from home for almost a month, did you run into these 2 scenarios: You’ve never worked remote before and you’re suddenly forced to work remote, so you’re searching online and asking…
Read More What if your meeting attendees refuse to turn on video cameras?
